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Automated parking lot payment systems. I’m talking about the kind where you pay before you drive out, or else pay with your credit car..
What the Hell Has Happened to Inaugural Poetry?
The worst possible thing that could happen to poetry has just happened again: a presidential inauguration.
Poetic rabble-rousers such a..
Socially-Conscious White Hipster Hip-Hop Bugs Me – Here’s Why
I started thinking about this when Kreayshawn’s* Gucci Gucci came out. This lyric of the chorus sort of bugged me:
“Gucci Gucci, Loui..
An Open Letter to the Drunk Middle-Aged Ladies Who Wouldn’t Leave Me Alone at Last Night’s Train Concert
Dear Ladies,
I hope you enjoyed yourself at the KDWB Jingle Ball. You certainly seemed to. You told me you’re teachers, and God kno..
How Mitt Romney Coped Today
Mitt Romney wakes at 5 AM underneath navy blue billion-thread count sheets at a hotel that costs more per night than the average Ameri..
A Presidential-Campaign Attack Ad Against Me
Jay Gabler wants your vote. He says he has what it takes to move this country forward. But let’s look at his record.
He says he’s a..
Signs You’re Being Divisive Just to Be Divisive
• Your divisive content has gotten mad hits … from people who hate it.
• You totally do not feel passionate about whatever you’re..
20 Free Headlines About Paul Ryan
4 Most Woman-Hating Things Paul Ryan’s 6-Pack Abs Have Ever Done
18 Most Boring Shirts Paul Ryan Wore this Month
Paul Ryan – Is ..
Red, White, and BOOOOOOO: This 4th of July, What Americans of All Political Stripes Can Agree to Hate On
Buddy—You may know him as Boo’s lackadaisical (read: unimportant) sidekick. But he (deservedly) gets no love. He’ll flip, twist, chase..
You Wanna Come Over HERE and Say What You Just Said About My Man Candles™?
What was that? What did you just say? I don’t think I heard you clearly. You wanna step over here and repeat, slowly and clearly, what you..
Enough With the Children’s Choirs Already!
In John Gardner’s seminal how-to-guide On Becoming a Novelist (a professor once told me all books about writing books suck….except for thi..
I’m Sorry, Donna Tartt (and Everyone Else in the World), but “The Secret History” Sucks
I first became aware of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History when I saw it on the nightstands of moms I baby-sat for in high school..